You have reached the website for
Cason-Merenda et al v. Detroit Medical
Center et al. Case No. 06-15601 (E.D.
Mich). This website will notify you of the
procedures to be followed by members of
three certified settlement classes as
ordered by the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Michigan (“the
Court”).

A hearing on the
settlements discussed below has been
scheduled for Thursday, September 2, 2010 at
2:00 p.m. at the Theodore Levin United
States Courthouse, Room 733, 231 West
Lafayette Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan
48226.

The Settlements.

On March 16, 2010 Chief Judge Gerald E.
Rosen of the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Michigan granted
preliminary approval to settlements reached
with three of the defendants in the case
Cason-Merenda et al v. Detroit Medical
Center et al. This case alleges a
conspiracy to suppress nurse compensation
among eight Detroit area hospitals and is
described in more detail in the Complaint
attached below. The settling parties are St.
John Health, Oakwood Healthcare Inc., and
Bon Secours Cottage Health Services.

Copies of the following documents are
available through this website:

Full Class Notice (contains a more
detailed description of your options and
the procedures for exercising those
options):

The Court’s order includes certain
deadlines that are of importance to all
members of these settlement classes. In
particular:

If you wish to opt out of any or all
of these settlements, you must send a
letter stating your desire not to
participate in these settlements by
mail, postmarked no later than June 24,
2010. This letter should be addressed
to:

If you wish to object to any or all
of these settlements, you must send your
written objection to the counsel listed
below, as well as filing your objection
with the Court (at the address below) so
as to be received no later than August
13, 2010.

You may, but are not required to,
hire your own lawyer to represent you at
the final hearing at your own expense.
If you wish to speak at the hearing, you
(or your lawyer) must file a “Notice of
Intention to Appear at Final Fairness
Hearing in Cason-Merenda, et al. v.
Detroit Medical Center et al., Class
Settlement, Case No. 06-15601” with the
Court (at the address below) and send a
copy to the counsel listed below at
least ten business days before the Final
Fairness Hearing (August 19, 2010).

Judge Rosen has scheduled the
hearing on the final approval of these
three settlements for Thursday,
September 2, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. at the
Theodore Levin United States Courthouse,
Room 733, 231 West Lafayette Boulevard,
Detroit, Michigan 48226. You may, but
are not required to, attend this
hearing.

Notices of objections (but not opt-out
notices) should be filed with the Court at:

Clerk of the Court:

United States District Court for the Eastern
District of MichiganClerk’s OfficeTheodore Levin U.S. Courthouse231 W. Lafayette Blvd., Room 564Detroit, MI 48226

The class
action litigation was filed on December 15,
2006 against six defendants (Detroit Medical
Center, Henry Ford Health System, Mount
Clemens General Hospital, Inc., St. John
Health, Oakwood Healthcare, Inc., and Bon
Secours Cottage Health Services). The
complaint was subsequently amended to
include two additional defendants (William
Beaumont Hospital, and Trinity Health Corp.)
on June 15, 2007.

A copy of the Third
Corrected Class Action Complaint in this
matter, setting forth the conduct that
Plaintiffs allege has resulted in suppressed
nurse compensation being paid by the
Defendant hospitals as a result of conduct
that violates the antitrust laws can be
found here: